Most people acknowledge that the mind has great, untapped power, but still the prevailing mood regarding illness is that when people get sick our mind has very little to do with it, that we don't think acim ourselves into illness and we can't think ourselves out of it. But what if this basic premise isn't correct? What if we're looking under the wrong bushel basket for the cures to our earthly ills?
What if the mind is the foremost place to look? What if the mind is the place where all illness starts? What if deeply-embedded thoughts in our unconscious mind are the stimulus, and the body generating diseases is the response? The mind gets sick, the body follows suit. What if to truly get well we must change our mind? What if to truly get well we must change our conception of reality?
What would that entail? What would we change our mind to? In what way would we need to change our conception of reality? We would have to appreciate that although reality looks like there are billions of individual bodies on the planet, the truth is that there is only One of us, and we are all a part of it, like a drop of water is part of the ocean. We would have to appreciate that, despite appearances, we are not bodies, that we are Mind, One Mind, generating a collective illusion that we are separate beings.